Live updates from reporter John Scheerhout at Preston Crown Court as the trial continues of Dale Cregan and nine other men. Updates are due to begin at 11am .....

Live updates from reporter John Scheerhout at Preston Crown Court as the trial continues of Dale Cregan and nine other men. Updates are due to begin at 10.30am ...

16.01

The judge sends the jury home for the day and trial is adjourned until Monday morning.Mr Justice Holroyde expresses particular thanks to one of he jurors who had suffered a bereavement and has continued to attend the trial, who has arranged for a funeral to take place this weekend so the case is not interrupted."The court is extremely grateful and may I on behalf of the court send you off with our sympathies," the judge told the juror.

15.54

Mr Greener answers those questions and that completes his evidence after nearly two days on the witness stand.

15.53

Tim Roberts QC, for Francis Dixon, is back on his feet and questioning Darren Greener again. He pointed out to the judge that the witness had been re-examined by the prosecution on a document that had not been referred to in any cross-examination. The judge allowed him to ask further questions.

15.33

Mr Clarke is asking the witness about a mobile phone said to have been used by Dale Cregan, suggesting the phone was switched off prior to the murder of David Short.The judge, Mr Justice Holroyde, ticks off the prosecutor for asking 'leading' questions.Mr Greener tells the jury records showed the phone was 'switched off or detached from the network'.The Crown, in its opening address to the jury, suggested Cregan was 'savvy' about the use of phones and ensured they were switched off during the murder of David Short.

The baton has now been passed to Rick Holland to continue to question Mr Greener, this time in behalf of his client Mohammed Ali.The witness is being asked questions, as he has all day, about a report he prepared for the police which indicates the positions and contacts between defendants in the case before, during and after the murder of David Short in Clayton on August 10.Mr Ali denies a charge of assisting an offender. The Crown say he transported Dale Cregan, Anthony Wilkinson and Jermaine Ward to Bradford after the murder in his VW Passat.

14.31

Mr Roberts has completed his questioning, and now Mr Greener is being cross-examined by David Fisher QC on behalf of Jermaine Ward. Ward admits he acted as a getaway driver but denies murdering David Short, claiming he acted under duress.

14.19

The jury is back in and Mr Greener is continuing to be cross-examined by Tim Roberts QC on behalf of his client, Francis Dixon.

13.06

The jury is sent out for lunch.

12.43

Mr Roberts is continuing to question Mr Greener, prompting at one point prosecutor Nicholas Clarke QC to get to his feet and tell the judge the defence barrister is quizzing the witness about how phones are attributed to defendants when he should not.The Crown says the attribution of phones to defendants is a matter for the jurors to decide and Mr Greener played no part in suggesting which phones are in which hands and so should not be questioned about, says Mr Clarke.

11.57

Michelle Kelly, who was David Short's partner, is listening to the evidence from the public gallery, as she and many of her family have done for every day of the trial.

11.47

Mr Greener went on to concede that using his data it would impossible to 'definitively state' that one phone was in the exact same location as another.The witness agrees that the data he produces can only be used to say in which mobile phone mast 'cell site' a phone is being used at any one time, and that cell sites can vary in size from several kilometres to hundreds of metres.He agreed with Mr Roberts that cells were not like the 'boundaries of countries' but he insisted it was 'very useful in assessing movement' when there are several connections between a phone and a network.

11.39

Mr Roberts reminds the court about the police interview of his client, when officers suggested cell site analysis had placed Francis Dixon in The Nelson pub where the Crown say the keys for the van which was involved in the murder of David Short were handed over the day before the incident.Mr Greener conceded he had seen no data at the time he wrote his report for the police which supported the police suggestion."The cell site analysis that you perform is incapable of pin-pointing the location of any particular phone at any particular time isn't it?" asked Mr Roberts."That's correct. Cell site does not triangulate positions," replied Mr Greener.

11.21

Delayed start this morning. The jury is back in court and Darren Greener, the police mobile phone analyst, is being cross-examined by Tim Roberts QC on behalf of the defendant Francis Dixon.

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